Bill Gunston OBE, FRAeS (1 March 1927 – 1 June 2013)[1] was a British aviation and military author.
[2] In his spare time, he was Flight Sergeant in the school Air Training Corps squadron and, for several months, the London Philharmonic Orchestra's librarian.
[citation needed] Gunston joined the Royal Air Force in 1945 and went to University College, Durham on an RAF cadetship.
[4] He later flew the de Havilland Vampire F3 a single-seat jet fighter before he left the RAF in 1948.
[4] Gunston attended the Northampton Engineering College until 1951[4] then he joined the staff of Flight International magazine, where, writing as "W.T.G.